Posted in church, technology, web on Aug 11th, 2008
You could run your whole church off Google apps, I reckon. Docs, Calendar, Groups, Gmail. It’s all very tidy. There’s just that security issue, you know?
Google Calendar is cool, though. I’ve just set up a draft calendar for our church, Gereja Kristen Pelita. Church members can view the calendar online, on the GKP site when [...]
Posted in mac stuff, technology on Aug 10th, 2008
Accordance is driving me crazy. The text stuff is fine. It has its annoying quirks, but what doesn’t?
The maps module is so, so frustrating. It is completely unintuitive and there are five hard-to-remember steps to do something that would be a key combination in an Omnigroup application.
I’m done being an Accordance advocate. I’m done. [...]
Posted in technology on Aug 4th, 2008
TED is great. I’ll leave you to get there and find out more about it yourself.
I love learning about fields in which I have no expertise whatsoever. Here’s one: origami and science…
This is tagged on the TED site as ‘fascinating’.
It is. There’s also ‘jaw-dropping’ and ‘ingenious’.
Check them out.
Posted in technology on Jul 27th, 2008
We just talked to my Mum on her mobile in Uganda using Skype. The conversation went for about 12 minutes and cost less than $1.50. That’s pretty cool.
Also, I have a structure for my essay (due Wednesday). That is also pretty cool.
Posted in technology on Jul 21st, 2008
Posted in play, technology on Jul 18th, 2008
Here are some cool movies of the earth and moon from space, giving us an idea of what an earth-like planet might look like, if we went looking for one that might support life.
During a full Earth rotation, images obtained by Deep Impact at a 15-minute cadence have been combined to make a color video. [...]
Posted in mac stuff, technology on Jul 15th, 2008
… at 8.20am, thinking I’ll pick myself up an iPhone, which is Sally’s present to me for my 30th birthday.
I arrive to find about 50 people in a line which turns out to be for the iPhone. Okay. So the Apple store opens at 8am. Good to know.
I jump in the line and wait. And [...]
Posted in mac stuff, technology on Jun 18th, 2008
Posted in mac stuff, technology on Jun 11th, 2008
Oh, mercy!
Posted in mac stuff, technology on Jun 10th, 2008
If you don’t follow this kind of thing, the second generation of the iPhone was announced last night, our time.
It has some great new features, including GPS (which most people didn’t think it would have), 3G (which everyone knew it would have) and longer battery life (which everyone was hoping it would have).
The best, [...]
Posted in technology, web on May 30th, 2008
Mozilla (creators of Firefox) are planning to attempt to break the record for the most downloaded software in 24hours. The attempt will be made when Firefox 3 is released sometime in June, and they’re asking for ‘pledges’ (weird) from people, that they’ll download the software when it comes out.
Posted in technology on May 8th, 2008
This is nerdy. You have been warned.
The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!) by Joel Spolsky.
PS This site is encoded in UTF-8. Just so you know.
